The garden of bad dreams and other stories, Christopher Hope

"A collection of short stories from acclaimed novelist Christopher Hope. In The Garden of Bad Dreams Hope's characters strive for order despite the entropy that surrounds them: a nostalgic circus man is compelled to collect small people; an industrious monk strives to push a mountain away from his monastery; the widow of an English captain tends her rose garden wearing an old Panama hat and tiny red slippers on her bound feet; and desperate soldiers eat an entire zoo, leaving only a pale jaguar from the jungles of South America."--BOOK JACKET

"A collection of short stories from acclaimed novelist Christopher Hope. In The Garden of Bad Dreams Hope's characters strive for order despite the entropy that surrounds them: a nostalgic circus man is compelled to collect small people; an industrious monk strives to push a mountain away from his monastery; the widow of an English captain tends her rose garden wearing an old Panama hat and tiny red slippers on her bound feet; and desperate soldiers eat an entire zoo, leaving only a pale jaguar from the jungles of South America."--BOOK JACKET